Fans of the movie franchise Zootopia know that sloths make the perfect DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) workers.

The harpy eagle is one of the most powerful eagles in the world and serves as an apex predator within the rainforest canopy ...

Deep within the Congo’s dense and largely unexplored rainforest, locals have long told stories of a massive creature that resembles a dinosaur said to roam the rivers and swamps. Known as ...

Rice University biologist Amy Dunham has spent decades studying the mountainous rainforests of Madagascar's Ranomafana ...

Long before today’s tree-dwelling sloths, a 4-ton giant roamed South America — and it may have stood and fought like a bear.

Wild orangutans in the Borneo rainforest have been observed washing themselves with soap – but researchers weren't sure why ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago.

The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is transforming its former Rainforest exhibit into the Primate Forest. Betsy Kling took a tour of the construction.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a ...

SEVIERVILLE — Rainforest Adventures Discovery Zoo is thrilled to announce the grand opening of its newest interactive habitat, home to a lively family of Asian small-clawed otters — the smallest ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

The now-shuttered restaurant used to be an establishment featuring animatronic figures of Al Capone and other mobsters.